The Sector X Tiberian Sun Information page was last Edited on Saturday, January 10, 1998 09:14:37 AM

A game made by:

Scheduled release date:
Fall 1998

Command And Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun	Information
	Facts and Rumors Add a Rumor or Fact
[Tiberian Sun Images] [Tiberian Sun Links]

Command & Conquer 2:
Tiberian Sun Facts

• Information from the CEO of Westwood
  "The technology behind the engine, the lighting system, the units, and the visual systems are being completely overhauled and changed. For Tiberian Sun, we are experimenting with other perspectives, but for a strategy game, we still favor some kind of top-down view because of all the control it gives you. Will it be a point-of-view 3D engine like Mechwarrior? No, not for Tiberian Sun. However, for future Command & Conquer products we are also experimenting with some other new ideas, but they probably won't appear or be discussed until the end of 1998. The next big game, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, should be out in the Spring, 1998." This info came from Brett Sperry (CEO Westwood)

• Facts Frm PCGamer
  "Well, here's the big one -- the full blown sequel to the original Command & Conquer. Westwood continues to be extremely tight-lipped about C&C Tiberian Sun, but we can tell you this much: The game will be using voxel technology ( the "volume pixels" used in Blade Runner [A voxel is a pixel that has Height, Width, and Depth; a sort of 3D technology that Westwood came up with.] ), so expect and more 3D-ish look, and two features already confirmed in game-play are space stations and genetic mutations. Expect to see Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun in stores in the summer or fall of 1998 and more information in PC Gamer soon."

• Misc. Facts
  -It's definite that Tiberian Sun will not use a 3D perspective like Mechwarrior, as was thought from the demo video from C&C.
  -Maps in Tiberian Sun are to be 2X bigger than the maps in Red Alert and 4X bigger than the maps in C&C.
  -In Tiberian Sun, you will be able to zoom in and out to get closer to battles or to see where your Harvester may have wandered off to.
  -Westwood will be implementing weather conditions such as rain, snow, clouds, and even smog.
  -Tiberian Sun will be set in the future of Tiberian Dawn and all the weapons and technologies will be far more advanced.
  -Tiberian Sun will have much bigger and better explosions and also better sound effects.
  -There will be nothing to do with aliens in Tiberian Sun.
  

Command & Conquer 2:
Tiberian Sun Rumors

• Antarctica
  Info from an inside source at Westwood... After the fall of NOD, Kane comes back with a new army and takes over the whole world except for Antartica, where GDI makes its last stand. Also, soldiers WILL be able to swim and climb mountains, as originally planned for Red Alert. There will be a large crane unit that will be able to pick up tanks and other units.

• New Game Engine
  Tiberian Sun will use an entire re-written engine (Red Alert does NOT use a new engine, it is an improved engine from c&c). The new engine is supposed to be awesome and will use the voxel technology found in BladeRunner. The voxel technology will enhance the 3d looks of units.

• Type of Game
  Tiberian Sun will be a real-time strategy game, being the successor of Red Alert and Command & Conquer. The new interface will be drastically changed from Red Alert's, including features such as zooming in for individual battles.

• Map
  The maps of Tiberian Sun will be much bigger than those in Red Alert, up to four times the size, and who knows, maybe even larger! The terrain will be considere "living" with weather conditions like snow, rain, clouds, smog, sunny, etc... There are also planned earthquakes and other geographical features implemented into the maps.

• Mechs
  OK, I heard this following on WChat, since the Tiberium is turning creatures into mutations if the GDI or the Brotherhood of Nod want to mess with tiberium they will need something to protect their soldiers from Tiberium, so maybe all the infanty will have those suits, I think that the real reason for that is because the development team realized that in RA infanty was useless because it's slow, got short range weapons, and slow firing rate, and got no armor so, the Mechtroopers are fast, well defended, got longer range, faster reload rate, also they can carry heavier weapons then infanty. and another reason is the tank rush, it's so good just because the infanty is too weak, so in TS tank rush won't be so useful because of Mechtroopers.

• Settings
  As of now Tiberian Sun will NOT be set in the time and place of Command and Conquer! It will instead be set in the alternate universe that Red Alert is set in. Also, on the back of the C&C manual you will notice a unit that is in a robot suit. It has been designated the Mechtrooper and is like a soldier, only with a faster rate of fire and a better ability to absorb damage.

• Add On Pack
  There are plans for an add on circling through Westwood if Tiberian Sun is successful! The name as of now is Tiberian Sun: Tiberian Wars! (This is only a planned name and it may change if the extension is released!). More on this later!

• Other Options and Settings
  There will be many in-game effects like in-game movies. And when you destroy someone, they won't just "disappear" like C&C, instead they will "fly away" a bit (a bit like the Z effects but better!) After an Interview on Red Alert with an Ed (Your guess is as good as mine) done by Game Slice Weekly, there was a small hint from him, that the future Game Engine of TS, would use both above view, as we have seen in C&C etc, and an First-Person view, so you

Thanks to The Vortex for the information

[Main Page] [Links] [Sector X Award] [Downloads] [Personal] [Music] [Guestbook] [Message Board] [E-mail]